Michael Shannon, Kate Hudson, Don Johnson and Da’Vine Joy Randolph will star in comedyShriver. The feature from writer-director Michael Maren is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Chris Belden.
The story is set in a small liberal arts college that— desperate to make a splash in the literary world— thinks they have found a famous writer who has been in hiding for 20 years, Shriver, and invites him to their writer's conference.
Unfortunately, the person they have located is a different Shriver, a down-on-his-luck handyman who has never read a book in his life and has trouble telling the difference between his imagination and reality.